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Bad Gramma, the video.

July 27, 2009 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under Recent News, video, websites

Despite Evan distracting me with good humoured music, after a revisit of jamesatwar we watched Bad Grammar. At the end of the video it thanked HotForWords which made me curious So with a click I found the site of Marina Olvova. Not that it needs much explaination but as wikipedia states the theme of Orlova’s [...]

PHPMotion Redux

July 1, 2009 by Mark  
Filed under Recent News, school 2.0, software, video

Back in April 2008 I did a post on a YouTube clone called PHPMotion which was then in version 1.  The software is now in version 3 and we have just installed it on our school server.  The latest version is still a bit of a pain to install, it runs on PHP and MYSQL [...]

Unlock Moodle Potential

June 17, 2009 by Mark  
Filed under Recent News, howto, moodle, video

One of the effects of the latest flu pandemic is that a school can be shut down at anytime.  Our particular school policy states that we will provide materials online while students are away so that they may continue with their studies.  Unfortunately in a practical based subject that is a little difficult and rather [...]

Everlong

June 16, 2009 by Mark  
Filed under fun, howto, learning, video

I downloaded the guitar tab (sheet music for guitar) for “Everlong” by the Foo Fighters about 2 years ago now.  It’s one of those songs that I love, especially the acoustic version, but every time I try and play it I put it back in the “too hard basket”.  It also happens to be one [...]

Newsmaker.app Great Fun

April 1, 2009 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under Recent News, learning, video

Since Learning@School we have been waiting for the release of Newsmaker for Mac and PC. Now we have our full site license we can move on from our enhanced garageband podcast to full video.
In using the app I have found it to be very simple with a small installed size (27mb) and a very quick [...]

wiimote, so easy

October 15, 2008 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under Hardware, video

To further advertise the simplicity of using the wiimote pens this video shows my Two year old daugther using the wiimote irpens on the projector in the lounge. She now loves standing on the toy box and drwing on the wall. good one dad
YouTube – wiimote, so easy.

Flip4Mac Drive-in

October 15, 2008 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under software, video

Software for copying your dvd’s to your Harddrive $39 US. I am not sure whether I have a big enough Hard Drive for all my dvd’s but it is interesting that here is a company that is allowing you to copy dvd’s legally.

Flip4Mac Drive-in

NZ election debate questions

October 7, 2008 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under video

Following on from all the US political excitement, here in NZ we can ask questions of our politicians through youtube it would seem. Now I just have to think up what to say about education. Hmm limited to 30 seconds.
YouTube – debate’s Channel.

BoinxTV

October 5, 2008 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under software, video

BoinxTV – Seed 4 – Click here for more blooper videos
I got my prerelease copy of Boinx Tv which seems like a great tool. I look forward to using it at ulearn I just have to convince Kelvin to go on camera again after our last video attempt.
BoinxTV – Seed 4 – Video.

YouTube – Wiimote Whiteboard vs. Commercial Electronic Boards

September 23, 2008 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under video

YouTube – Wiimote Whiteboard vs. Commercial Electronic Boards.
I visited Tepuke High School today and was really impressed by the setup for their wiimote iwb’s I look forward to building my own this week. Will post some photos of the setup later, If only my n73 bluetooth would work with osx.

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